Find the notmuch shared lib rather than hardode a location

[notmuch] / cnotmuch / globals.py

diff --git a/cnotmuch/globals.py b/cnotmuch/globals.py
index 553670a49c5c1460a1c77c24ff3b144e5cf2a05a..611c29ed8fcee4f93cc27503d81536801c935c37 100644 (file)
--- a/cnotmuch/globals.py
+++ b/cnotmuch/globals.py
@@ -1,7 +1,14 @@
 from ctypes import CDLL, c_char_p, c_int
+from ctypes.util import find_library
+
+#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 #package-global instance of the notmuch library
 #TODO: lazy load this on first access?
-nmlib = CDLL('/usr/local/lib/libnotmuch.so')
+so = find_library('notmuch')
+if so is None:
+  raise ImportError("Could not find shared 'notmuch' library.")
+nmlib = CDLL(so)
+#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 class STATUS(object):
   SUCCESS = 0